I was horrified to learn from my brother how everytime he visits his hunting lodge, he notices more and more new houses being built on the way to the lodge.

You too Uh? I spend a lot of my free time in Upper Wisconsin. When I was a kid the WI North Woods was truly a wilderness to behold. Today, it is carved up with homes and developments through and through, especially around the lakes. Back home in the outlying areas NW of Chicago where I grew up and went hunting as a kid there are ten of thousands of new homes and town houses that now occupy the fields, woods and farmland I used to roam and thousands more are being built every year.

It is Sad what is happening to America's Open Spaces. I'll never understand the wacky notion that economic growth and prosperity rests with an ever-greater number of warm bodies in the country. Do we want to be like China or India? It's like the Open Border Cabal believe that capitalism can only work if there is a population explosion. Tell that to Switzerland! We as a nation won't know what we have lost until we have totally lost it.

You too Uh? I spend a lot of my free time in Upper Wisconsin. When I was a kid the WI North Woods was truly a wilderness to behold. Today, it is carved up with homes and developments through and through, especially around the lakes. Back home in the outlying areas NW of Chicago where I grew up and went hunting as a kid there are ten of thousands of new homes and town houses that now occupy the fields, woods and farmland I used to roam and thousands more are being built every year.

So many people don't understand how quickly population growth can change their way of life.

And fewer are the people who understand how quickly population growth liberalizes thinking: In a world of shortages, people must share and ration to get along, and they must turn to government to referee the countless conflicts that come with crowding.

Conflicts like who can own a firearm or who can smoke a cigarette where.

It is Sad what is happening to America's Open Spaces. I'll never understand the wacky notion that economic growth and prosperity rests with an ever-greater number of warm bodies in the country. Do we want to be like China or India? It's like the Open Border Cabal believe that capitalism can only work if there is a population explosion. Tell that to Switzerland! We as a nation won't know what we have lost until we have totally lost it.

The greatest luxury is the enjoyment of freedom--not the enjoyment of consumer products produced by a society teeming with smokestacks where hordes of people live in human anthills.

Like New Jersey, whose population density surpasses that of India or Japan; good old liberal New Jersey.

Nothing--not Bach, not Rembrandt--no art, architecture, or music can substitute for the sights and sounds and smells and touch and taste of nature.